Schools' decade-old Chromebook program deals with challenges as parents and educators grapple over the amount of children's time online.

In late April, Sparks City Council unanimously approved a request by the local police department to roll out facial recognition software to crack down on shoplifting in partnership with Reno Police and Washoe County Sheriff's Office. The technology is the latest strategy to tackle what police say are rising theft rates in Sparks.

Roblox will contribute $10 million over three years to support youth programs and alternatives to screen time. The settlement includes enhanced age verification and restricted notifications for minors.

Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant. 

There are significant disagreements about whether the industry's economic benefits are worth the combined $457 million in projected tax abatements that Nevada has doled out over the past decade.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. Unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro funds the project with donor money funneled into a private foundation.

Artificial intelligence is the latest trend in health care technology, and companies at CES in Las Vegas showed off AI products designed to improve health, track hormones and increase accessibility to medical information.

With use of AI images on the rise, digitally manipulated images have become more commonplace in local politics. New legislation seeks to regulate that use.

Zoox's debut with free rides in driverless vehicles raises concerns among those who work for rideshare and taxi services about the financial implications.

The Markup and CalMatters audited the websites of all 19 states that independently operate their own online health exchange and found Nevada and three other states exposed visitors' sensitive health information.

Because the Vegas Loop is privately operated and receives no federal funding, it is exempt from the kinds of exhaustive governmental vetting and environmental analyses demanded by the other cities that Elon Musk's company sought to host the project.

The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.

One person died and seven others were injured Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck that appeared to be carrying fireworks caught fire and exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel, authorities said.

Google plans to invest more than $400 million in Nevada this year to support its data center campuses in Storey and Clark counties, the company announced Tuesday.

The university received $3 million in grants to bolster its cybersecurity training and consulting. MGM, Caesars and the Clark County School District have recently been victims of cyberattacks.

State, county and tribal officials gathered at Gerlach Community Library to celebrate the completion of one phase of a project to bring broadband access to town. 

Redwood Materials — a lithium battery recycling company based in Carson City — received more than $105 million in tax abatements.

A Nevada internet provider won a $27 million federal grant to bring high-speed internet to technologically underserved Lovelock, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday in a swing through Reno. 

State lawmakers on a joint special committee studying the zones met to probe the contentious proposal, which would give county-level authority to a brick-and-mortar community Blockchains hopes to build.

In the 142 days between announcing a deal to go public and its initial listing on the Nasdaq, Las Vegas-based social gaming provider PlayStudios kept busy.